Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel.

A string instrument "Cello" which is larger than the violin and slightly smaller than the contrabass is a musical instrument with four strings and bass echoes. A cello craftworker cut out timber, ...

Beautiful music from a stringed instrument starts with good wood. Stringed-instrument maker John Kirk knows the tone a violin, viola or cello will have before he begins to carve it. He takes the ...

People have been playing music together in the small Appalachian town of Hindman, Ky., since it was founded in the late 1800s. Today, one of the few businesses still open in the town is the , which ...

Mittagong luthier Peter Goodfellow has spent years honing the delicate craft of building violins, cellos and violas, carving wood into objects of visual and aural beauty. Peter Goodfellow's workshop ...

The lordly violin and its less illustrious relatives in the string family are in trouble. As today’s concert halls grow more cavernous, it becomes increasingly difficult for a solo violinist to ...

When one thinks “violin,” the images that come to mind are the Stradivari and Guarneri instruments. When one thinks “violinist,” it is usually the superstar concert soloist – the Hilary Hahns, the ...